UPDATE, Sunday June 26th & various replies

[carolynwhite2]

PROGRESS
Well, as everyone may have noticed we finally achieved our interim 
goal this week, and finished coding to post 61393, up to the 
publication of OOP. Great, well done all and sundry. About seven of 
us did 3495 posts last week, mainly with chainsaws.

The current tally is 68487 posts coded and 39737 rejected - a 
satisfying 58.0%, and back up to previous levels almost. 

We have done 59 out of 106 review sections, and the whole focus now 
is on completing those reviews, if possible before July 16th. Please 
just pick up sections and go for them.

Coding errors - can we check the reject status on the following:

Sean: 60376, 59119
Carolyn: 60636
Jen: 57683

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Ginger:
I called in sick to work tonight (98 degrees outside, 114 in the 
trailor) and broke down and got an air conditioner. 

C - We had English summer this week as well. This is the technical 
term for 10 days of exhausting humid high temperatures between 
consecutive months of rather chilly, overcast, but very dry weather. 
The net result is no tan when you need it, shrivelled up gardens, but 
flash floods sweeping away various villages, Glastonbury etc.

The upside is that every year it alternately fries the Wimbledon 
spectators or stops the tournamount.

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Dot:
Deep sighs of contentment are heard across the ether. Dungrollin 
(for it is she) lies back in her hammock sipping fresh pineapple 
juice, rolls another cigarette, and gazes at the forest still 
dripping from last night's storm. For yes, at last, she has 
submitted her overly-long thesis, and returned to her African lair 

My internet really is slow here. Most pages are ok, but it takes a 
good 30 seconds for the category list to load each time I move to a 
new post, which makes re-coding a pain in the whatsit. Any tips?

Trying to be relaxed and calm, but really *extremely* cross that the 
Radio 4 listen again page doesn't appear to work from here, and so 
she's missing I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. $#*@\%!

C - Where are you exactly ? Seem to remember Ivory Coast, but that 
sounds a bit dangerous.. Heh, you are missing a new series of the 
News Quiz too. Friday evening highlight. When do we have to start 
calling you Dr Dung?

No theory on the Internet connection, except I've noticed it has been 
a bit gungy even from the UK recently. Could try clearing all your 
URL caches etc, see if it makes a difference.

Dot:
What I want to know is if I can uncode a load of the Godric's Hollow 
codes when what is being discussed is Lily's sacrifice and the blood 
protection. Shouldn't the Godric's Hollow category be more about 
discussions of the incident rather than it's results?

C - I would agree with this, so please go right ahead. Also, thanks 
for updating all those definitions, and yes make the changes in the 
database sections as you suggested. I will upload them all into the 
live catalogue in due course.

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Boyd:
Please ADD (Additional Dumble Data) these:
2.3.1.2.2 Agenda as Headmaster (for the description, please 
say "Including
why he took the job, his choices regarding teachers and subject 
matter, and
to what extent he knows what his teachers are doing.")
2.3.1.8 DD's Abilities (for the description, please say "For 
discussion of
his special magical abilities, his animagus form, and other special
abilities/knowledge")

If you can then realphabetize these subcats, that'd be great for 
future users (and me!).

Question #1: His reference to seeing socks in the Mirror of Erised 
comes up repeatedly (and often entertainingly). I would like to move 
the best of these to 1.3.12 Ch 12 Mirror of Erised. Agreed?

Question #2: I would like to place the better discussions of his age 
in 1.2.12 Calc'ing Characters' Ages. Agreed?

Question #3: I would like to place the better discussions of his 
various titles (e.g. Mugwump) in 3.2.5 Medals, Awards, Titles. Agreed?


C - OK, will add the extra categories you requested. Before you move 
the socks posts, check the socks category under WW clothes. 
Personally, I think they should all go there, rather than the Mirror 
of Erised, because they are not really about the Mirror, but what DD 
meant by the remark.

I thought we had agreed to have a new sub-head under a character for 
discussions about their age if there was a lot of debate ? KathyW? 
[BTW, I have asked Paul several times to move those posts out of that 
general heading but he has not got around to it yet].

I agree about titles, awards etc

Boyd:
Finally, since MD has now been proven wrong, I have rejected those as 
0.0.7 Mistakes/Perpetrating Mistakes.

:) Ah, the joy of inflicting imagined psychic pain on the evil 
headmistress.

C - You will now be placed on SHIPping duty with First Lt, Ginger, 
who has recently been promoted to management for keeping me back a 
doughnut from **the party you didn't invite me to**.

Any further insubordination and you will be sorting out the FAQ/Adds 
nothing new reject category for the rest of your life, in case we 
missed anything important.

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Nice!Thoughtful!Ginger:

"Well, I have 3 options," 

"(1) We can combine them, (2) we can thread them (which Miss didn't 
seem to care for) or (3) I can read through every blessed one again 
and figure out if the coder was coding with the impression that Good 
was for Good threads and ESE was for ESE threads, OR if they had 
coded each to what was being discussed in that particular post. Both 
have been occuring frequently. 

"I do need to reread them if we are setting Pippin's aside. Miss 
will have to let me know on that."

...we could just e-mail Pippin and tell her she needs an acronym 
because, goshdarnit, that's how we do things around here.  We could 
call it PELT:  Pippin's ESE Lupin Theory.  Or something.  Get Tabouli 
on the line.

C - I called her out on TOC...we need a solution to this. Whilst 
waiting to see what she says,  the best distinction I can think of is 
that all obvious ESE!Lupin (Pippin or other people) posts and the 
threads that relate to them should go under one head, but other posts 
which really just start independently off on a character analysis of 
Lupin which leads to a Good!Lupin conclusion should go under another 
heading.

So the distinction would be good!Lupin posts go under ESE!Lupin if 
they are an integral part of a thread there, but not otherwise.

Would this work?

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Kelly:
... strolls into the empty catalogue office and over to her desk,
which is covered in files. Picking up six of the files, she walks
over to Miss Havisham's desk and drops them in the "Finished reviews"
tray. She glances at a calander on the wall, then to the nine files
still stacked on her own desk, then again at the calender, and an evil
grin slowly spreads across her face. She quickly gathers up all the
files, returns to Miss Havisham's already overflowing desk and adds
her files to the top of the mountain, with a small memo attached:

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Well, I failed spectacularly in my goal to finish all my review
sections before leaving on this trip. And so I'm going to have to
turn the work over to you and the rest of the catalogue team. The
following categories are the ones remaining from my review 
allocations... 

P.S. Paul and I successfully completed my computer setup, so I'll be
able to return to coding as soon as I'm settled in on the ship. Who
knows, I may even be able to challenge you, Sean, and Ginger for the
"Fastest Coder" title.

C - Whoa! Not so fast...

We have a problem Houston...coding has now officially stopped and we 
are in review mode for the forseeable. 

Would there be any chance you could complete reviews and email me 
lists of post # to change from onboard ship?

The problem is that I don't want to start on the next phase of the 
catalogue without completing this one properly.
 
 
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Kneasy:
Ah, the follies of youth, when the world was young and posters not 
yet steeped in paranoia and mendacity accepted the canon at face 
value. Didn't last long, though. Within a handful of weeks suspicion 
supplanted surety and the miserable old curmudgeon was off and 
running - well, not so much running as oozing into perceived cracks 
in the fictional facade. A lisping dewy-eyed innocent transfigured 
into a misanthropic old bugger, corrupted by the observation that the 
really interesting posts in the back files were the ones that upset 
the fluffies.

C - A what????????? A 'lisping, dewy-eyed innocent'.......

..entertained that you haven't yet managed to get a rise out of the 
Samizdatistas..maybe you should present yourself as a fluffy. As gun 
enthusiasts, it should quickly get a bit more interesting than 
pansying about on HPfGU.

& sorry, owe you on architecture. Later.